10. Dear veffel, ftill be to thy fteeragejuft, Nor change thy courfe with ev'ry fudden guft: Like fupple patriots of the modern fort, Who turn with ev'ry gale that blows from court. 11. Weary and fea-fick when in thee confin'd, Now for thy fafety cares diftract my mind; Asthofe, who long have stood the ftorms of ftate, Retire, yet ftill bemoan their country's fate. Beware, and when you hear the furges roar, Avoid the rocks on Britain's angry fhore. 10. Fidit; tu, nifi ventis Debes ludibrum, cave. 11. Nuper folicitum quæ mihi tædium, Vites aquora Cycladas. 156914 On reading Dr. YOUNG's Satires called The Univerfal Paffion, by which he means Pride. IF Written in the Year 1726. F there be truth in what you fing, A minifter fo fill'd with zeal And wifdom for the common-weal: If others, whom you make your theme, Where governors are good and wife; rage: Or take it in a diff'rent view. If law be fuch a partial whore, To fpare the rich, and plague the poor: If these be of all crimes the worst, The DOG and THIEF. Written in the Year 1726. UOTH the thief to the dog, let me into your door, And I'll give you these delicate bits. Quoth the dog, I fhall then be more villain than you're, And befides must be out of my wits. Your delicate bits will not ferve me a meal, But my mafter each day gives me bread; You'll fly, when you get what you came here to fteal, And I must be hang'd in your ftead. The stock-jobber thus from Change-Alley goes down, And tips you the freeman a wink; Let me have but your vote to ferve for the town, And here is a guinea to drink. Said the freeman, your guinea to-night would be spent ; Your offers of bribery cease: I'll vote for my landlord, to whom I pay rent, Or elfe I may forfeit my lease. From London they come filly people to choufe, Their lands and their faces unknown: Who'd vote a rogue into the parliamenthouse, That would turn a man out of his own? ADVICE to the GRUB-STREET Verse-Writers. YE Written in the Year 1726. E poets ragged and forlorn, I know a trick to make you thrive ; Your ftill-born poems fhall revive, Get |